The Madwoman of Chaillot (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Giraudoux
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: A little before noon in the spring of next year
- Setting: The Chaillot district of Paris
- Genres: Drama, Parable
- Subjects: 1940’s, Paris, Mental illness, War, Women, Greed, Money
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Countess Aurelia (oh-ray- LYAH), the Madwoman of Chaillot (shah-YOH). Living eternally in the moment when her life was loveliest, and as champion of beauty and of the gentle people of Paris, she is confronted, at a sidewalk café, with the brutal forces of materialism in the form of a syndicate preparing to drill for oil beneath the streets. Realizing that justice, as it is ordinarily understood, will be powerless against the destroyers of beauty, she forms and carries out, with the help of her gentle friends, a plan to annihilate the financiers. With the...
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